Communism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Left communism ==== {{main|Left communism}} Left communism is the range of communist viewpoints held by the communist left, which criticizes the political ideas and practices espoused, particularly following the series of revolutions that brought [[World War I]] to an end by [[Bolsheviks]] and [[social democrats]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Communist Left in the Third International |first=Amadeo |last=Bordiga |author-link=Amadeo Bordiga |date=1926 |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/comintern.htm |access-date=23 September 2021 |website=www.marxists.org}}</ref> Left communists assert positions which they regard as more authentically [[Marxist]] and [[proletarian]] than the views of [[Marxism–Leninism]] espoused by the [[Communist International]] after its [[1st Congress of the Comintern|first congress]] (March 1919) and during its [[2nd World Congress of the Comintern|second congress]] (July–August 1920).{{r|Gorter et al. 2007}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bordiga |first1=Amadeo |author-link=Amadeo Bordiga |title=Dialogue with Stalin |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm |publisher=Marxists Internet Archive |access-date=15 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Ronald I. |last=Kowalski |title=The Bolshevik Party in Conflict: The Left Communist Opposition of 1918 |publisher=[[Palgrave MacMillan]] |location=Basingstoke, England |date=1991 |isbn=978-1-349-10369-0 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-10367-6 |page=2}}</ref> Left communists represent a range of political movements distinct from [[Marxist–Leninists]], whom they largely view as merely the left-wing of [[Capital (economics)|capital]], from [[anarcho-communists]], some of whom they consider to be [[internationalist socialists]], and from various other revolutionary socialist tendencies, such as [[De Leonists]], whom they tend to see as being internationalist socialists only in limited instances.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.internationalism.org/book/export/html/761 |title=The Legacy of De Leonism, part III: De Leon's misconceptions on class struggle |date=2000–2001 |website=Internationalism}}</ref> [[Bordigism]] is a Leninist left-communist current named after [[Amadeo Bordiga]], who has been described as being "more Leninist than Lenin", and considered himself to be a Leninist.<ref>{{cite book |last=Piccone |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Piccone |date=1983 |title=Italian Marxism |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |pages=134 |isbn=978-0-520-04798-3}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page